Pelosi: "Sure. Why not? (ha ha Mitch probably won't even be Majority Leader in February)"
Posted on 01/02/2021 10:11:25 AM PST by TigerClaws
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) issued the following statement in advance of the Electoral College certification process on January 6, 2021:
"America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law.
"When the voters fairly decide an election, pursuant to the rule of law, the losing candidate should acknowledge and respect the legitimacy of that election. And, if the voters choose to elect a new office-holder, our Nation should have a peaceful transfer of power.
"The election of 2020, like the election of 2016, was hard fought and, in many swing states, narrowly decided. The 2020 election, however, featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.
"Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed. By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes.
"And those allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate. Instead, they are widespread. Reuters/Ipsos polling, tragically, shows that 39% of Americans believe ‘the election was rigged.' That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%).
"Some Members of Congress disagree with that assessment, as do many members of the media.
"But, whether or not our elected officials or journalists believe it, that deep distrust of our democratic processes will not magically disappear. It should concern us all. And it poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations.
"Ideally, the courts would have heard evidence and resolved these claims of serious election fraud. Twice, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to do so; twice, the Court declined.
"On January 6, it is incumbent on Congress to vote on whether to certify the 2020 election results. That vote is the lone constitutional power remaining to consider and force resolution of the multiple allegations of serious voter fraud.
"At that quadrennial joint session, there is long precedent of Democratic Members of Congress raising objections to presidential election results, as they did in 1969, 2001, 2005, and 2017. And, in both 1969 and 2005, a Democratic Senator joined with a Democratic House Member in forcing votes in both houses on whether to accept the presidential electors being challenged.
"The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted illegally.
"In 1877, Congress did not ignore those allegations, nor did the media simply dismiss those raising them as radicals trying to undermine democracy. Instead, Congress appointed an Electoral Commission-consisting of five Senators, five House Members, and five Supreme Court Justices-to consider and resolve the disputed returns.
"We should follow that precedent. To wit, Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.
"Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given' and ‘lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.
"We are not naïve. We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a few Republicans, to vote otherwise. But support of election integrity should not be a partisan issue. A fair and credible audit-conducted expeditiously and completed well before January 20-would dramatically improve Americans' faith in our electoral process and would significantly enhance the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next President. We owe that to the People.
"These are matters worthy of the Congress, and entrusted to us to defend. We do not take this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect it. And every one of us should act together to ensure that the election was lawfully conducted under the Constitution and to do everything we can to restore faith in our Democracy."
“Where are the boys from Florida?”
That’s a really good question. There’s time for them to add their names to the signature page. They’d better get a wiggle on.
It’s a good start but where are Tim Scott, Tom Cotton and Rand Paul???
This better be true. However: unless each the STATE LEGISLATURES of the contested states reconvene their assemblies; having their STATE LEGISLATORS declare the presently “official” presidential electors “null and void,” and; further, issue a separate competing slate of Republican presidential electors to the U.S. Congress ...
Then these objections will, at best, result in a tie between the Republican-controlled Senate and the Democrat-controlled HOR. In the case of such a tie, the winner of the contest goes to not the incumbent, but rather to the challenger.
What good may come of this Electoral Commission will only matter if their investigation produces sufficient doubts so as to compel the state legislatures to issue new electors. If such result were realized, then it would be the “Hail Mary pass” of the century.
Burr and Tillis are missing from the list...but that’s not a big surprise, is it?
“Accordingly, since we know that our colleagues in the House will not agree to also vote to reject the electors, “
Dude, there’s over a 100 in the house who plan on rejecting.
You're just throwing your money down a rathole.
I see these politicians getting elected to benefit themselves and their own financial wellbeing, not that of their constituents.
If they are going to cheat and commit fraud, look the other way from any fraud or disavow that any fraud is taking place, then they don't need my hard-earned money to win. They're on their own.
Let them get their money from the lobbyists, the big donors, the influencers, the shakers and movers and whoever else they've been getting their dirty money from in the past. Me? I'd be throwing good money after bad.
Starve the beast.
Glad to see Cruz at the top of this list.
Anyone who does not sign onto this joint statement is a traitor and should be treated as such.
This might be why you don’t see Cotton on the list. Bill Kristol’s son works as legislative director for Senator Tom Cotton.
WHERE’S RAND PAUL??
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Getting his hair curled
Pelosi: "Sure. Why not? (ha ha Mitch probably won't even be Majority Leader in February)"
So this guy signs on to it and then gets blasted for it?
Phone Number: (202) 224-2353
“How can an “emergency 10 day audit” be done in the 96 hours until 1300 Jan 6?”
It will be between the 6th and the 20th.
So this guy signs on to it and then gets blasted for it?
We who live in Oklahoma have this guys number...and a good memory.
I wasn’t sure in the beginning where they were going with this. It’s an odd collection of RINOs and Conservatives. But, it sounds good. Am I missing something.
Just primary them.
Why is there a Federal Election Commission?
Well, if everyone suddenly started voting “NO”, I think he would, too.
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